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I seem to get zero clicks. The very first day I implemented it, it worked like a charm and then I have had just one lead in over a month. I get targeted traffic which just has to convert but even clicks don't seem to get recorded. Sometime back there was a thread here about bugs in Google Referrals. Have they yet to be fixed? Is anyone making anything worthwhile from this?

I've tried it in a couple differnet places and it just doesn't work. I am just sending the advertisers TONS of traffic for nothing. Will not use anymore. Not worth my time and I can hear the user's cookies being deleted (and me taking a screwing) as I type.

Thanks for the feedback, I was considering implementing those ads, but have now decided it probably isn't worth it. I think one of the biggest gripes I heard from other advertisers was that the landing pages weren't effective (too many calls to action encouraging people to call rather than fill out an application).

I had some spotty unpredictable conversions for a while, but it fell apart like white bread left out in a rain storm. I got a couple referral systems set that converted fairly consistently (consistent according the type of numbers I'm used to seeing from Commission Junction,) but then those fell down and didn't get up. That aside still doing okay with the original referrals like firefox, and googlepack.

p.s. had a few dozen adsense sign ups (why I foolishly promoted more competition I can not say) yet not a dime.

Both banners and text from the same company that was very aligned with my audience abd they were doing about equal (different pages). Then they started just thowing in any old one and two cent text ads from whoever and it went from $200>$5 per day and I pulled it.

so one can conclude once again, that this is complete rubbish, right? it is striking, that every accounting method other than cpc offered by google is a complete waste of time.

why don't they just let the cpa ads compete with the other ads in our ad slots and show the best performing ones? answer: if they'd do that, not a single cpa ad would stand a chance, because of the comparably absymal payout. they would have to pay probably ten to a hundred times more to make it worthwhile. these prices seem in no way to be enforceable on the site of the advertisers. cpa ads would suffer the same pathetic fate as cpm ads = hardly to be seen in our ad blocks. so they offer cpa ads seperately in the hope of attracting curious publishers who get their fingers burnt one after another..

it's no wonder that every advertiser who contacts me directly only wants me to put their pay per sale affiliate ads on my website. at the same time, they are moaning about the high click prices for adwords cpc ads - as if i'd make such deal out of charity or what? whereas i wonder where my money from these allegedly exorbitant ad clicks is. strangely i find the click price i receive is still dirt cheap.

First 'G' beat my affiliate sites down to dust in the SERPS, but I figure some you win, some you lose. I put PPA in the slots and got nothing. Yanked that garbage out right away. I'd rather have dust than nothing.

Working same as before. Same clicks, same conversions. Nothing changed for me.

Is that good or bad?

Good enough for me. It outperforms earnings from search. Usually i get "user must visit important page on our site", or "user must download widget" conversions.

Why do not use referrals where other ads cannot fit? For example one line text link. Also ASA confirmed referrals do not influence contextual AdSense stats. So I think referrals are also good for low eCPM pages (for example on forum), which some guys believe are driving overall site/account eCPM down.

Just something to keep in mind - if someone reports thousands of impressions with no sales or when someone else reports earning $ per day, none of the rest of us should make decisions simply based on that information.

We don't know which ads were chosen and we don't know the audience for the site.

I put them up in a prime spot during my best time of the year, when I was getting 70K visits per day. Got plenty of clicks, but only two conversions that weren't Google product, and maybe 5 Google Pack conversions. Plus the interface is buggy as all get out, and it showed ads I didn't want showing. So I took them all off. Not ready for prime time.